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Your Presenter Kevin Baird Kevin.Baird@CollegeCareer.Org

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FORWARD LAKE COUNTY! PREPARING 21 ST CENTURY LEARNERS FOR COLLEGE & WORKPLACE READINESS

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College & Career Readiness: Whats Changed? Phase I Priorities: Shifting Emphasis English Language Arts: Common Core Lesson Mathematics: Common Core Lesson PRIORITY STEPS FOR NOW! TODAYS OVERVIEW

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A Process of Discovery, Support and Mastery THE NATIONAL PATHWAY

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THE ALIGNMENT PROCESS

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Conditions for Successful Implementation Plan Vision:The Why are we doing this? to combat confusion. Skills:The skill sets needed to combat anxiety. Incentives:Reasons, perks, advantages to combat resistance Resources:Tools and time needed to combat frustration. Plan: Provides the direction to eliminate the treadmill effect. Knoster, T., Villa, R., & Thousand, J. (2000)

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YOU ARE THE TECHNOLOGY

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ONE BAD HABIT REFLECTION

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CONSIDER

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Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma. And yet, just over half of our citizens have that level of education.

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12 The U.S.A. Tomorrow 2018: 63% of Jobs Require College

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13 CHOICES in LIFE are Determined by the OUTCOME

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14 NATIONALLY, EMPLOYERS EXPECT EMPLOYEES TO USE A BROAD SET OF SKILLS. SOURCE: Hart Research Associates. (2010). Raising the Bar: Employers Views on College Learning in the Wake of the Economic Downturn. Learning Outcomes Desired by Employers BHEF

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15 CURRENT WORKFORCE DEMANDS INDICATE ACUTE LABOR SURPLUSES AND SHORTAGES. National Workforce Surpluses and Shortages SOURCE: Light, J. (2011). Labor Shortage Persists in Some Fields. Wall Street Journal BHEF

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16 AND FUTURE WORKFORCE PROJECTIONS INDICATE ON- GOING SHORTAGES, ESPECIALLY IN HIGH GROWTH CAREER FIELDS. SOURCE: Derived from ACTs The Condition of College and Career Readiness, 2010 BHEF

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17 AMERICAN STUDENTS MATH PROFICIENCY AND STEM CAREER INTEREST DECLINE THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL. BY 12 TH GRADE, ONLY 17% OF STUDENTS ARE MATH PROFICIENT AND INTERESTED IN A STEM CAREER. SOURCE: The Business-Higher Education Forum. (2011). The STEM interest and proficiency challenge: Creating the workforce of the future.

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The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations. America has fallen to 9th in the proportion of young people with a college degree.

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19 AND ONLY ABOUT HALF OF STEM COLLEGE GRADUATES CHOOSE TO WORK IN STEM CAREERS UPON GRADUATION. SOURCE: Carnevale, T. (2011). The STEM Workforce. Presentation to the PCAST Working Group on STEM Higher Education, April 15, 2011. BHEF

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COLLEGE READINESS BENCHMARKS BY SUBJECT Percent of ACT-Tested School Graduates Meeting College Readiness Benchmarks By Subject 2011 66% of all ACT-tested high school graduates met the English College Readiness Benchmark in 2011. Just 1 in 4 (25%) met all four College Readiness Benchmarks. In 2011, 52% of graduates met The Reading Benchmark, while 45% met the Mathematics Benchmark. Just under 1 in 3 (30%) Met the College Readiness Benchmark in Science.

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QUICK FACTS Each year, approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school, more than half of whom are from minority groups. Percent of freshmen that enroll in at least one remedial course Community College Four-Year Institution 42%20% Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2009 edition.

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Students who enroll in a remedial reading course are 41 percent more likely to drop out of college. (NCES, 2004a) Students Obtaining Bachelors Degree in Eight Years Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2009 edition.

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ACT Study Schmeiser, 2006 Unprepared in Reading Prepared in Reading Chance of later success 1% 32% Science 15% 67% Mathematics

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Change in text complexity in textbooks over the last century Source: Metametrics

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Todays text gap Source: Metametrics

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Lexile levels today and with Common Core Rigor Increased 2-3 Grade Levels Current Typical text measures (by grade) Common Core Text complexity grade bands and associated Lexile ranges

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TEXT COMPLEXITY

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COMPETITIVENESS GAP

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FORMATIVE QUESTION : DESCRIBE A COLLEGE & CAREER READY High School Senior

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FORMATIVE QUESTION : DESCRIBE A COLLEGE & CAREER READY Eighth Grader

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FORMATIVE QUESTION : DESCRIBE A COLLEGE & CAREER READY Fifth Grader

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FORMATIVE QUESTION : DESCRIBE A COLLEGE & CAREER READY Kindergartner

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HOW MUST SCHOOLS CHANGE?

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Todays text gap Source: Metametrics

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Lexile levels today and with Common Core Rigor Increased 2-3 Grade Levels Current Typical text measures (by grade) Common Core Text complexity grade bands and associated Lexile ranges

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For example, at grade 3, students might listen to an animated cartoon character providing information on ways to save energy in the home. The student is then asked to respond to a series of short-answer comprehension questions or perhaps to analyze or integrate information in order to complete a graphic organizer with key ideas and examples from the public service announcement. Assessment Example: August 2011 Content Framework Draft for Review

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ELA Stanza Preference Punctuation Collaborate Illustrator Brainstorm Opinion Non-fiction Math Attribute Decompose Decomposition Composition Hexagon Dimensional Vertices Category KINDERGARTEN ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY

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Learning Targets Knowledge Mastery of substantive subject content where mastery includes both knowing and understanding it. Reasoning The ability to use knowledge and understanding to figure things out and solve problems. Demonstration The development of proficiency in doing something where it is the process that is important such as playing a musical instrument, reading aloud, speaking in a second language or using psychomotor skills. Products The ability to create tangible products, such as term papers, science fair projects, and art sculptures that meet certain standards of quality and present concrete evidence of academic proficiency.

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Summarize Question Evaluate Summarize Question Evaluate Use an Argument Prompt Why was IdeaSupport

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Percentage distribution of literary and informational passages: Nonfiction is Key Source: National Assessment Governing Board. Reading Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Washington, D.C.: American Institutes for Research, 2007. Kevin.Baird@CollegeCareer.org

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PREPARING OUR STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE & CAREER

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Many levels One text Common standards Many levels One text Common standards

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TEACHER ACTIVITY CHANGES thinking The Common Core Standards emphasize student outcomes at higher levels of cognitive performance / critical thinking. understanding Instruction must expect higher levels of critical understanding.

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To Argue... and Inform... in Writing CCSS Requires Argument / Evidence-based Writing Source: National Assessment Governing Board (2007). Writing framework for the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, pre-publication edition. Iowa City, IA. ACT, Inc. It follows that writing assessments aligned with the Standards should adhere to the distribution of writing purpose across grades outlined by NAEP. Distribution of Communicative Purposes by Grade in the 2011 NAEP Writing Framework

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Set schema Prior knowledge Argument Set schema Prior knowledge Argument

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Write Central ideas/theme Create product Argument/ evidence Vocabulary Write Central ideas/theme Create product Argument/ evidence Vocabulary

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